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The Ski Trip

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Thank you to netgalley and the publisher for the ARC.
Great thriller that was so well written. This was fast paced and hooked me right from the start. Really great book.

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I went in to this book not expecting much but I was pleasantly surprised, I got a snowy creepy atmosphere and I couldn’t put this book down! Atmospheric and krr we of mdd weed guessing g until the end! Great thriller to read!

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Thank you SO much to Netgalley and the publisher for an ARC of this book.

I absolutely loved this!! Such great characters and a great storyline.

My full review is to follow in a few days.....

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A boys skiing trip, best friends from uni who drift apart, and a death. Sounds like my kind of read!

Julian, Tom, Harry and Rob all have pretty big egos and when Tom dies in a blizzard, it appears that they could all have potential motive for murder. Tom's brokenhearted wife, Zoe, begs her old uni friend, Ivy, to accompany her to the ski resort and that's when the drama really ramps up! More twists and turns than a black run!

I kept changing my mind throughout, wondering who, amongst all of the unreliable and egotistical characters would take it as far as murder and the end was a huge shock.

4 ⭐️ Thanks to Netgalley, Sarah Clarke and HQ for an ARC in return for an honest review.

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A ski trio amongst friends, what could go wrong?! This is so well written, I really felt like I was there (I’ve never been skiing!) I could picture it really well. The plot twists were well executed and it end well too.

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This was a great thriller. I loved the setting which was in a ski resort in France. The plot was very cleverly crafted with lots of twists. I was kept guessing about what had happened during the accident. My suspicions kept changing as I read on. The ending was a great twist and totally unexpected. I would defintitely read another book by this author.

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Fast paced, hard to let put down thriller! Some things were a bit predictable, however, I really enjoyed this one. Thanks netgalley and the publishers.

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Wow, what a conclusion, didn't see that coming at all.

So much good stuff in the pages of this incredibly gripping book, that I was totally enthralled by.

We have Ivy and Zoe, who have gone out to France, after Zoe's husband Tom dies on a boys ski trip. They are all old friends, but there is something about the accident that has Ivy asking many questions.

We learn a lot about the groups mixed history, in addition to the ups and downs of Ivy's pasts with a few of them in particular.

And the descriptions of the skiing were to die for!

I couldn't' get enough of this book, and just wanted to keep on reading, even past the end page.

Was fabulous.

Thank you to HQ Digital and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.

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Secrets abound in this new thriller from Sarah Clarke. When her sometimes best friend's husband dies in a skiing accident with friends, Ivy is reluctantly persuaded to temporarily part from her young son to accompany a grieving Ivy to organise collection of Tom's body. Ivy is the only person concerned that the supposed accident may be more than that.

I didn't fully believe in all the characters and their varied motivations but it was still an interesting read. Also a snowy landscape that can be easily cut off always makes for a great setting.

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I love a book set in the Alps, reminds me of my time in the Snowy Mountains. I couldnt guess who did it and was it an accident. Unfortunately I just couldnt connect with Zoe.

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I really enjoyed this thriller, the snow setting was really atmospheric.

I didn’t really attach to the characters, especially the mates! But I loved the authors writing so will definitely read more of her books

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Four friends from college are on a skiing holiday in the Alps when one of them falls to their death. Zoe, Tom’s wife, and their friend Ivy fly to France to collect his body. While Zoe is grieving, Ivy continues to listen to the stories of everyone present on the day of the accident and as a result questions everything, especially whether it truly was an accident. And, if it wasn’t an accident, who is responsible?

Tom was an excellent skier, so Ivy continues to piece together what she knows of the events of that day. If her suspicions are correct, the person responsible is still at the chalet.

I really enjoyed this novel and trying to piece together who was responsible. The different twists and turns kept me on my toes.

Thank you to NetGalley and HQ for allowing me to read an ARC of this novel. #NetGalley #TheSkiTrip

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I really wanted to get to this one, as it seemed interesting. The downfall was that I requested so many ARCs that I could not get to all of them before the book was archived. If I can find this somewhere for a reasonable price, I will try to get it!

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The Ski Trip is a page-turning snowy thriller, a gripping read perfect for this time of year.

Four friends, all of whom have known each other since they were at university, head off on a boy’s skiing holiday to Morzine but the trip ends in tragedy when one of them, Tom, has a fatal fall. His widow Zoe travels to France with her friend Ivy to collect his body. But Ivy soon begins to question what really happened, particularly as Tom was an experienced skier and his death happened on a relatively benign slope. Was his death other than an accident - and is one of his friends responsible?

Told from three different points of view, and moving between the present and the friends’ time at university, this is a book that will keep you guessing as there seem to be suspects galore and motives aplenty! The Alps setting is vividly described - there is something uniquely intense about a ski resort, particularly in bad weather - and I raced through it never quite knowing who or what to believe but keen to find out the truth. And the truth was pretty dramatic!

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Ivy, a very private person, meets up, after many years absence, with her old university friend Zoe and agrees to travel with her to a ski resort in France when Zoe’s husband mysteriously dies.
An absorbing twisty psychological thriller. Find out what really happened.

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A very fast-paced and highly involving thriller. Ivy is persuaded to accompany her old friend Zoe to France after the death of Zoe's husband in a freak ski accident, despite them having fallen out years before. Tom was out with a group of friends, all from their university days, and old patterns of behaviour begin to emerge. This novel genuinely has twists and turns and an original and unexpected ending. Highly recommended if you enjoy claustrophobic thrillers!

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Thank you to NetGalley, HQ Digital, & HarperCollins for the opportunity to read and review this book before it's publication date! This in no way affected my review, opinions are my own.

Predictable (and not in a fun way), with wooden two dimensional characters. Not enough interest to continue.

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A well written and fast paced novel that I quite enjoyed.
The snowy setting was claustrophobic and ideal for the perfect crime.
The characters were well written though I found none of them especially likeable except for Ivy, she wasn’t great but her heart was in the right place.
Suspenseful and descriptive, I would recommend this book.

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I absolutely loved this book and couldn’t put it down, especially towards the end.
Zoe asks friend Ivy to accompany her to France to make arrangements to recover the body of her husband who has been killed in a terrible skiing accident. They stay at the chalet he had been visiting and his skiing friends from the fateful trip are still there .
While Zoe struggles to cope with her husband’s death Ivy becomes more and more suspicious about what actually happened but finds it difficult to convince other people, including the police, that it wasn’t an accident and he was murdered. This in turn puts Ivy in danger.
I was hooked from the beginning and found myself on the edge of my seat at the end with a brilliant twist I didn’t see coming. The characters were so well written I actually found myself disliking them intensely. I look forward to reading more from Sarah Clarke.

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Scary icy thriller. I love the idea of an alpine style murder. Just a really good read and well worth recommending to friends!

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